The Sun. — London, England, 1826-12-09 00:00:00

Portugal, tuanily important to the interests of that country and to England. EMIGRA TION. Mr. W. HORTON was anxious to correct an hn. pressiou which, from the statement of the Honourable Member for Carlisle (Sir dames Graham), seemed to have been created, that the intentions of Government with respect to emigration as a mode of relief to the distressed weaver* in the north, were now different from these of which expectations had been excited,. in the answer formerly given by Lord Bathurst to an application made to hint on that subject. Such an impression, wherever it existed, or however it was produced, was erroneous. In the answer to.the last application respecting the distresses in Glasgow, given by Lord Bathurst, it was distinctly stated, that however ' much his Lordship regretted the distress adverted to, he could not give to the application any other answer than that already given in a printed circular ; but it was added, that the subject of the application would he laid before the Secretary for the Home De partment. He (Mr. Horton) now begged to add, that the letter in question should be referred to the Committee on Emigration, for the re-appointment of which it was his intention to move on the. 1511 i of February. Sir GRAHAM said, that at a meeting of the Emigration Society, it had been stated, that hopes were held out by certain influet;tial Members of the Cabinet, that encourage ment would be given to emigration. He now regretted to find that that was a misrepresentation. Here the natter dropped. Sir H. PARNELL presented a petition from the Roman Catholics of King's county, praying for Emancipation.— Ordered to be printed. ROYAL AND PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY. On the motion of Mr. S. RICE, there was order rd to be laid before the House a return of the number of R o y al and Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry instituted within the last 20 years; distinguishing the number in each year, the sub.. jcets on which appointed, the expenses attending each, and the flutes of their several reports. FIRST FRUITS IN IRELAND. Mr. S. RICE gave notice, on the part of his Right Hon. Friend, the Member for Waterford (Sir J. Newport) that soon alter the holidays, lie would submit a motion on the subject of tt , e-tiret fruits' fund in Ireland ; and as preparatory to that motion, he (Mr. !live) now begged to move for "a te turn of the amount of first fruits received in Ireland within the lust tat years, distinguishing the amount in each year, the sources from whence derived, and the application of the whole."—Or.: tiered. COLONIAL EXPENSES. - Mr. HUME wished to . .know from the Hon. 'hider Secretary for the Colonise, whether he would have any obje, , tion that there should be laid before the House an account of the Meow and expenses of the several colonies, Mr. W. HOR EON would not fail to make appli cation in the several quarters, in order that such a Return, as far as it could be made out, should he laid before the !hum. Mr. HUME then gave. tiettre, that on Monday he Would move for Copies of the Income and Exnenses of the several Colonies. Mr. Hump, p resented ' a petition from the Cabi net-makers of Bradrd, and two petitions from places In the neighlewrhood of that town, against the Corn I.aws.—'lbe first wee ordered to be printed, DUTIES ON INSURANCES, Mr. Alderman THOMPSON held in his hand a petition from the Royal Exchange, the Sun, the London, and bo other Insurance Companies, complaining of the exorbitantly high duties now levied on insurances, Some of these duties amounted to 200 per cent. on the rite paid by the insured. The ordinary ran of insurance was Is. fid. for 1001. ; hut the amount of duty was So. per cent. The consequence of this high charge was, that the business of the fire insurances had not advanced for a conside able time, as it might have done. On the contrary, it Might, on the whole, be said to have decreased. Since 1782 (we helicro the rate of duty had been increased from la. W. to Sr. but it had • not been diminished since the termination of the war. The ire ! . titioners stated their conviction, that if their present amount of duty wen redund • one ,half, or even two-thirds,. no Materiel reduction sienld be thereby made in the amount which the Government at pre sent derived; for that many would be induced to insure, who were at present deterred by the high duty. As he was upon this subject,l he must say that•the whole of stamp duties ought to be revised —(Hear, hear. ).:—Commercial men generally complained of the very high duties on marine insurances. • .Mr. BERNAL was glad to find the Hon. Alder man ; i ntroducing this important question. and he halal be would be prepared to submit a notice or motion on the subject. Mr. WARBURTON - enfotced the necessity of a x eduction iu that amount of duties. The petition was now brought tip and read. Mr. Alderman 'I ROM PSON, in moving that it be printed, expressed his concurrence in what had fallen freer the Hon. Member (Mr. Bernal) as to the necessity of 'some motion on the subject, and he would give a notice to that effect, if he were not aware that some correspondence was now going on be tween the merchants of London and his Majesty's Ministers, par ticularly as regarded marine insurances. lie, therefore, would wait to see the' result. Mr. Alderman .WAITHMAN thought that a re duction of the rate of duty on insurances would be productive of considerable advantage to the general trade of the country. . • The petition was ordered to be printed. Mr. 'WARBURTON requested for a moment the attention of the Hon. Member opposite (Sir H. Ilardinge.) By a paper which had been put into his hands that morning . , it ep peered: that tire Ordnance were in the habit of advertising for . contracts for particular kinds of timber, but the specifications set forth timber of the highest price, which it was impossible to sup ply. The consequenee was, that an article of inferior value was sent in, and a high price charged. While the specifications were allowed to be in their present firtm, no Merchant of honour could bid for the contract, for he would not wish to send timber of inferior value. • Ile therefore thought the specifications should be Altered. Sir IL lIARDINGE aaid, that if the Citet were so, the Ordnance would feel obliged to the Hon. Member fur say suggestion which he could make. All he could say further was, that the Hoard of Ordnance would make inquiry into the subject. STATE OF IRELAND. Mr. H. GRATTAN, in presenting a petition f o r eineoeipation from the parish of Grenagh (we think) i„ the coonty of Longford, observed, that it , wits the very reverse of a petition which had been laid before the House on a former evening, (Wilding, we suppose, to that from Mr. Orpen, of Dublin) ; that prayed for war, this, now presented, implored for peace. They prayed fur that without which Ireland would never be at, peace. Some of the petitioners were tenants on an estate of his, of which their aneeeters,who were generals ind eolo male in the army, were once the proprietors ; but so far from feel ing any insecurity ow that ground from coutosions to the Catho he felt convinced thet his property would ise even more safe than while the CatarY svau OMNI to remain in Its present dis tracted State. He deeply regretted,that on the subject of Ireland Ministers should have hitherto preserved such a perverse silence. tut if Ministers were silent, Ireland avonld not be so. It was imposaible that the great mass of her popidetion should not cry sot against the present system. They had Sadist emuitry a Lord Liessdimant of one opinion, and a Chief Secretary of another--a Lord Chaticallor win') edvouated one rouge of public nureaures, Ned au ..tttorney-Oeneral who supported the opposite. Was it possible that they could go on in this manner ? He, ass Protest ant, could give evidence, mid could have it attested on oath, did eke forms oldie lions* allow, that he was a loser to a eonsiderable erxtent by the general feeling (which the present state 41 Ireland teressarily created) that it wenlil at this moment he unsafe to e+ e. bark capital in any speculation iu that country. It h a d b een pro posed to form a company for the eawouragement of spinning, and (as we understate!) the manufacture of 4 0 , 1 ,,, r that country, (a quotation much wore likely to succeed than the mulb,rry Cons gamy, of which they bea rd a g reat deal) ;and tan gre capitalists in Dub , Mr. Latouehe end another, had declared tom, were the aw n of 200,000/, necessary for the Romaa Catholic question carried , they coul4l without difthere. ty, in twenty-four hours, raise the company ; hut that in the present irteeePT9 •thk of the roan. try the thing would he impossible. Ordered to be printed. EntonkTlON. • . 4 A message was received from the Lords, requesting that a copy of the report merle during the last Session, by a select Committee of the House of Commons, on the subject of emigra i,tion hens the United Kingdoms, *lmola he communicated to their Lordships. An answer was returned to the messenger, stating that the House acceded to the request of their Lordships. f.! On the motion of Mr. Hrititivs, the Exchequer Baia 0,000,000/.) Bill, and also the transfer of Aids Bill, was Alreld athird time, and passed. CAPE Or GOOD HOPE. Mr, BROUGHAM 14 been informed, that in the Ahlkettelion which had Wok Out tags night respecting the Cape Of Good Hope, a question had arisen as to tbe course which he intended to pursue with regard to a petition which he had formerly presented, complaining of the misconduct of the Governor-of that colony. That petition he had presented two Sessions ago on be half °f lit.. Bishop Burnett ; and he understood that it was now said that the report of the Commissioners had dealt with the sub pat matter of that petition, and completely exhausted it. He bad not read that report with soy great attention ; but in the cursory perusal which he bad given it, he did not find that it referred to all those parts of the petition to which his notice had been more particularly called. In presenting that petition, he had said that there were some matters stated in it of so extraordinary a nature, that he , could not believe them to be facts ; but that if they were facts, it was impossible for the House not to take the earliest on nortunity of investigating them most rigorously. The matters to which he referred did not form what was more particularly called the ease of Bishop Burnett. That individual bad brought forward in his petition collateral' charges against Lord Charles Sonierset, of far greater importance then those which formed the substance of his own case, and to those charges he (Mr. Brougham) cenfessed that his attention had been fOrcibly attracted. He had understood fron► the Right Hon. 'Secretary for Foreign Affairs, that Lord Charles Somerset was coming home, and indeed had now arrived, to meet the charges which had been preferred against him. Ile was glad to bear that declaration front the lion. Gentleman, be cause the ease of Bishop Burnett was much subordinate to the charges which his petition opened against Lord Charles Somerset. lie certainly would take the earliest opportunity of examining the report more accurately than his avocations had hitherto enabled him to examine it. IMPROVEMENTS AT CHARING-CROSS. Mr. HOBHOUSE would .put a question to the Secretary of the Treasury, which he would have put to some Gen tlemen of the Board of Works, had he had the good fortune to see any of them in their places in the House. Many of his consti tuents were deeply interested in the improvements which it was in contemplation to make in the neighbourhood of Charing-cross. They wished to know when they would be commenced, as the doubt in which they were now left, operated very prejudicially upon their interests. They could not take in any stock, or make any fresh purchases of goods, as they did not know_ at what period they might he turned out of their houses.' Mr. HEItItIES was sorry that he could not give the Eton. hterniket for Westminster suds an answer as would re lieve his constituents from the anxiety under which' they laboured at present. Though the improvements were not to be car ried on. under the controls! of the Treasury, he knew from infor mation which he had received as a private individual, that the Cominisaioners appointed to superintend them were now engages! 'on their work. There were, however, - certain preliminary ar rangethents to be made respecting the purchase of property to he pulled down and removed, which rendered it impossible to say when the improvements would be actually commenced. Though they had as yet taken no active and visible measures, he could as sure the honourable Member that the Commissioners had not been idle. • SIERRA LEONE. , Mr. BERNAL asked the.Seeretary for the Colonies whether the, report of the Commissioners, who bad been sent out to inquire into the condition of the settlement of Sierra Leone, would be laid 'on the table in the course of the present Session of Parliament. . . . . Mr. WILMOT HORTON expected that it would h e laid on the table early ht February. Mr. HERMES postponed till the 13th of Febru ary, his motion to extend to the United Kingdoms the duties on the conveyance of letters now existing in Great Britain. The report on the St. Domingo Postage Bill was ordered to be taken into consideration on Monday next. DOUBLE RETURN. _ Mr, ESTCOuIa said, that the time had now ar rived when It was necessary that Members who had been returned for two places should make their election for which place They would serve. He had himself been returned for two places, for the University of Oxford, and for the borough of Downton, lie now begged ,to inform the House that be made his election to Rive for the OilTersity of Oxford, A lieW writ wasin consequence issued to fill up the vacancy in the rept...ooooX the borough of Downton, occasioned by Mr. Esteourt's Inteinibern elected to serve for the University of Oxford. ----- Mr. C. W. WYNN then moved that a new writ sbouhl be issued for Downtnn, in consequence of It. Southey, Esq., Ow had been returned as one of its representatives, not having tli pitaithtution required by law.---Issued accordingly. COLON 1?,1,. Int A I/LEY. Mr. HUMP, in bringing forward bin present mo tion, must necessarily bring under the consilfrration of the House a cure of thigrimt military • oppresaion. Thu Hon. hlemlier then detailed the circumstances under which Lieut.-Colonels Arthur and Bradley were sent out to the colony of Ilondmais ; but, as they are already well known to the public,• we confine our report to that part of them whit:lt i; .Peresaary to make the ensuing dea bate intelligible. In the course of Iti)1, while Lient.•.Cohmel Arthur was acting as. Military Governor of HOtulorat, the regi ment in Oriel' he held the rank of Lieut.-Colonel was disbanded, and he himself, reduced to half-pay. Lieut.-Colonel Bradley, then stationed with Ida regiment at Honduras, conceived, that as he was the older officer, and on full-pay, lie was entitled, by the laws of the service, to talus the. Pompand of the military farces at Honduras from Lient.-Colonel-Arthiw, - iv, that oflieec: had bear reduced from full to half-pay. Lieut.-Colonel Arthur refused, however, to resign his command to Lieut.-Colonel Bead ley, and elaimed to e.,4 as Military Governor on a commission from General Fuller, the CoHunantier-in-Chief at Jamaica. As Lieut.-Colonel Bradley would not aebnit the authority of Lieut.- Colonel Arthur, that officer placed hint tinder atereit, kept him in close confinement for 812 days, and then sent him to E.,llg land. On his arrival in England Lieutenant-Colonel Bradley found that he had been dismissed the service, and was only per. mitted, as a reward for twenty-orie . yeare' service, to dispose, at the- regulated price, of his commuision. !Icing convinced of the illegality of Lieutenant _ -Colonel Arthur's Conduct towards him, he brought an : action against that officer, and the damaget which he would other ita have recovered were greatly diminished in consequence of two of cera AMA the Horse Guaids producing on the trial a document purporting to ke einumission authoris ing Lieutenant4;olonel, Arthur to take the inilltapy eqnnoand at Honduras.. Since that time the Noble Lord his dooment then produced in Court, and sworn to be a commis sion, was not a commission, but a letter of service. If it were so, lie was linnet/L:4 to say, that by the laws of the army no officer was bound to obey mother, upless he could prance a re gular commission giving him superior siithority. The object of his motion was twofold—first of all, he wished to pbtaio popies of the continission said to be granted in 1814, under the autho rity of the Duke Pi Manchester, by General Fuller, to take the command of the snitirary Anus stationed at Honduras, whilst he was .only on hair-pay and, secomily, to have a copy of Lieut.- Colonel Arthur's report to the Commitoderrio-Clinif in 1820, after he had placed Lieutenant-Colonel Bradley ionise welt, and also his correspondence with Lord Bathurst, who was then at the bead of the Colonial Department, on the same subject. He did not wish to Lave those letters produced fur his own priieta info!' matiou, foe he had already seen copies of them, but for the gene ral information of the How. prom those letters it was evi dent, that at the time he wrote theta, getitenant:Gilonei Arthur bed rio such commission as it was now preteiajtvl that he held ; for in else AI ,hesn, he wished to be informed in what tigustion he, who was Indy to, officer on half-pay, was to he considered with regard to Lientsuusts.Colonel Bradley, an officer on full pay, and at the station in conthiagd of his regiment. When those, papers were placed upon the table, :he was sure that it wool , : appear to the House that gross injustice had imp done to Llea4Asta-Colonel Bradley. The lion. Member then con cluded by moving Chr a series of papers embracing the objecta which lie had mentioned in kit speech. The first of them re lated to the authority given by the Di.o4.a of Manchester to Gene re) Fuller to appoint Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur, k).Pary Gtrier nor' Of ikuluras. . . „. Lord PALAIFigSTON felt it his duty to object to the production of liut 4pcmytenta for which thellonourable Member for Aberdeen had moved, not beratite the despatches which were called for did not exist—for be had seen theta because he hail any doubt as to the genuineness of the commission Or wu r of service, for it had been admitted asevidence in a Court of Justice, (nit hpanise, in the view he took of this matter, no Par liamentary ground* were iajd for their production. The merits of the case had been so often discussed in the last Parliament, that k t aa vii o a t i v a ll i the House an apology for pressing upon its attention so 4 aokidasl a subject ; but as there night become members :mac witirtheto, he felt it necessary to mention them am briefly as pnalible• 'Me ataraolent he intended to make to the House was rirnply this :—.Lieutermat-Colonel Arthur was appointed by the Duke of Manthester, Governor of Honduras, and received from (kn. Pffier a commission, or lever of service, authorising him to take the othuninn of the troops stationed- there. Lieut.-Colonel Bradley was, therefore, placed as an officer under the command of Lieutenant. Colonel a a tu iir. The regiment to which Liente mmt_Colonel Arthur belonged was blebs: deal, and he himself was p u tcur half-pay. Liettt.-Col. Bradley then chose to suppose that as Lieut.-CA 4rthnr's regiment Was disbanded and Lieut.-Col. Arthur was placed on bakf-pay, that officer ceased to retain any Military authority at Honduras,— . -an atahority, which, it ought to he recollected, that he derived not from his regimental discussion, but from the commission he received from General Vuller.-.- Lieutenant-Colonel Bradley made himself the interpreter of the law on the point, and not only made himself the interpreter of the law, but also determined to set upon his interpretation.— lie not only Said that Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur had ceased to command; hot also attempted to supersede his own com manding officer. fle took upon himself great responsi bility in so doing, and lie ought not now to complain that he was compelled to stand by the consequences of it. Under such cir cumstances he had described to the House, LieutenantXolonel Arthur did that which any officer similarly situated would have done, and if he had not done so, he would have deserved dismissal from the service--Lhe placed Lieutenant-Colonel Bradley under arrest for mutiny. The question between the two officera was then referred to the Commander-in-Chief, who, after hearing them both, decided that Lieutenant Colonel Arther was in - the right, and that Lieutenant-Colonel Bradley was in the wrong. As it was impossible to pass over such a breach of military law as that of which Lientenant•Colonel Bradley had been guilty, the Commander-in-Chief felt it to be his duty to remove Lieutenant- Colonel Bradley from the service. The whole affair was sub mitted to the King, and his Majesty was pleased to confirm the determination to which the Commander-in-Chief had conic. Lieutenant-Colonel Bradley was not cashiered, as he, perhaps, de served to be, he was allowed to retire, receiving the value of his commissions, which by the bye he had not purchased. He would now inform the House, that although in the main points Lieut.- Colonel Arthur was right, there was still one respect in which he had been guilty of erroneous judgment. He had done right in placing Lieutenant-Colonel Bradleyunder arrest, but wrong in re taining him under arrest—not, however, in close confinement, as the Honourable Member had stated—until he was dismissed from the service. After Lieutenant •Colonel Bradley was dismissed from the army, he brought his case under the consideration of the legal tribunals of the country., The result was, that the Court affirmed that Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur had authority to confine Lieutenant-Colonel Bradley : it negatived the assertion that Lieutenant-Colonel Bradley had been illegally detained in the first instance ; but bit said that though Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur was' justified in the original arrest, he had continued it beyond ne• cessay, and it therefore gave him a verdict for 2001. Lieutenant- Colonel Bradley Was not satialied with this result. He moved for .1 new trial on the ground or - a - misdirection on the part of the Learned Judge, and had it refuied c him. Such being the ease, on what ground 'could the House how interfere in this transaction ? He thought that these documents were only wanted to enable Lieutenant-Colonel Bradley to swell his next petition with their statements : and that being his Opinion, he felt it to - be his duty to negative the present motion. Mr. HUME controverted at some length the state ment 4 of the Noble Lord. He very much doubted the existence of the letter of service. • Lord PALMERSTON begged to remind the House, that the Hon. Member for Aberdeen and himself were at issue as to a fact. The Hon. Member had said that the com mission had no existence in 1814. He replied that it had. Colonel ToRRENS defended the officers of the arm . ) , from the charge of being slaves. Sir. H. HARDINGE said, it was impossible for any officer to sit silent under such an imputation as had been east on the whole army by the Hon. Member opposite. If they re mained silent, then, indeed, they might deserve to be considered as slaves. Fortunately, however, observations of this nature coming from the Hon. Member were perfectly harmless. The motion was then negatived. _ On the motion " for a copy of any general order issued - by Ge neral Fuller, for the appointment of Colonel Arthur as Commau. dant of ifonduram." Mr. HUME would rest the whole business on the question—" Did Colonel Arthur, when he placed Lieut.-Colonel Bradley under arrest, possess any authority from General Fuller, which justified him in adopting that measure?" (Lord Palmer ston, " Yes.")--Ife wished to know whether the Noble Lord would admit the letters of Colonel Arthur, in which he allowed that he did not possess such a power, to be received as a proof that the statement on this point was not false. Would he allow those letters to be received in contradiction to the charge of false. hood ? Colonel Bradley did not, as had been asserted, act precipi tately. For three suceetedve months he demanded to know what commission Colonel Bradley held, and from whence it had been received, but he could procure no satisfaction. He (Mr. Hume) now asked, what authority General Fuller had to skiper cede the King's commission, which was in the hands of Colonel Bradley ? Lord PALIVI ER STON. , ---I have already stated the facts toile House. To those facts I refer, and I will not add one • syllable more.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HUME did not speak of a commission in ex istence now, - but of a commission in existence at the this when the arrest took place. Sir H. HARDINGE was astonished that the Hon. Member should, after the luminous explanation of his noble friend, after his unequivocal statement, that such a commission did exist, reiterate his question. It was little less than doubt ing theyeracity of the Noble, Lord. Mr. HUME was of opinion that the Noble Lord's answer was evasive. It did not directly meet his question, - which, related to a commission not of the present day, but issued some years ago. • Lord PALIVIERSTON said, that it was itripossi-* ble that he could be answerable for the extreme obtuseness of un derstanding possessed by the Honourable Member for Aberdeen ; but he would venture to say, that his statements bad been clearly understood by every other Honourable Member. He had stated, not only i/pon the present occasion, but last year, in the course of the last Session, that he had read a paper—the same paper which he then held in his hand—a letter from Colonel Arthur, dated 1820, in which that Gentleman quoted: his Commission from General Fuller as the reason for his exercising the authority he had as sumed. That authority was in existence in 1814, and if the Honourable geniber's (Mr. Hume's) intellect was so deeply ob tuse—so profoundly dull and stupid, as to require such frequent repetitions—repetitions more frequent even than these with which he (Mr. Hume) was himself in the habit of favouring the House, in order to soak into his mind those matters which, upon a first hearing, rsere so obvious to every other comprehension, then he should leave the Honorable Member to the impenetrable dark ness which dwelt in his brain, without a hope of being able Wye netrate it-(Hear, -hear.)—For himself, he should consider it as a matter of total indifference whether he was or was not understood b 1 the Honourable Member. He addressed himself to the under etapding of the House of Commons. and not to the Hon. Member for Aberdeyn.., 7 (ar, hear). The Resolution was negatived) Wai`e Pl!t nOpra fgrllip pro duction of Papers moved by the Hon. Member. Upon the tlird Resolution being moved. _ _ _ Mr. HUME had lived long enough in the world, and in that House to know that abuse was no answer to argument. • Any liqn• Member might attempt eke., but he mold give no satisfaction beyond the few who felt intereated ip supporting him. The Noble LON had charged. him with :obtusenesp of intellect ; if his intellects w ere obtuse, that was his misfortune, not his fault ; and he wax the less blameable upon that ',core, bit cause he believed that he spent more hours in entleitvouriug to en lighten his mind than were perhaps, required by the Noble Lord in the attainment of the same advantage. It might be very true that other Hon. ?dew Pert ehmrly understood what he found it' difficult to comprehend ; but this atupWity ought not to he visited upon the gentleman whose ease he advocated—(Hear, hear !) It was now said that he was deficient in evidence, but he assured the Woh f-ord that he should take the trouble of procuring copies of Colonel Arthur's laltem frl which there would be found a di rect negative to the Noble Lord's Stateiosilts ; if Ph then he should be content to sit down under every charge of stupidity which the Noble Lord bad poured forth upon him. As to the present tirade poured forth by the Noble Lord, he received it with utter conipnqt. All that had been said could not alter his (Mr. :- flume's) sentiments no matter how much his Lordship had been cheered and supported by the Galla n t .0/Vico behind him (Sir H. Hardinge), and the other Members upon that side of the: Ilontte 7 , (Hear.) —He trusted that Honourable Members in their discos ' slims Would roollue themselves to moderate language. For him self, lie assured the House, that if neon any. occasion lie expreued himself too warmly, he was most sorry for it; but in no iostance could he allow himself to indulge hr language, which the Justice of the Noble Lord , the clearness of his views, and the great quickness of his intellects induced him to pour forth upon his (Mr. Hume's) meaney and less compreh e n s i ve ca pacity—(Hear, hear.)—lle Omni,' leave it to tine ilehle Lord, wholiad the good taste t o in (ilge in such expressions, a n d to those who wens ep rofilted as to comaeadmire his eloquence, to approve of such a of pro cee di ng in that House ; reserving to himself the honest expression of his o wn opinions, no matter how opposed,for in what language at tempted to be rebtAted. Sir H. HARDINGE said that those who lived in glassliouses should not be the first to throw stones! Mr. HUME said, his o bservation waa; that if officer* were to be deprived'of their command and cammissions in SMITHFIELD MARKET.—Dre. •. At this day's market, which was, fur that of a Friday, mode rately well supplied, Mutton met with a very tardy sale at a fall ing off of full d. per stone from its Monday's quotations ; but ,in the prices of the middling .run of other kind, of meat there was little if any alteration. There were, however, about half a dozen of exceedingly fine Heifers, of the Herefordshire breed, fat • tened by a Mr. King, of Plaistow, Essex, and a few highly-fed Devonshire Steers and Oxen, for which from ss. Bd. to tic per stone was demanded, and, in some instances, obtained. 111,ICES PER STOW! OF 81,11 S. 10 SINK THE (WEALS. s. el, to s. d. s. d. to., d. Inferior Beasts 2 8 3 2 South Down Wethers . 4 0 4 4 Second quality ditto— 3 2 3 6 Large coarse Calves.... 3 8 4 0 Prime large Oxen 4lO 5 2 Prime small ditto 4 4 4 8 Prime Scots, &c 5 0 5 4 Large Hogs 3lO 4 2 Inferior Sheep 2lO 9 2 Small Porkers 4lO 510 Second quality ditto.... 3 4 3 8 Suckling Calves...l2s. to 30s. each. Coarse-woolled ditto... 3 8 4 U Quarter old Pigs ~10s. to lee. each. No good Milch Cows, either in Smithfield to-day, or at Islington yes terday. Beasts SUPPLY, AS PER CL Sheep. 4,140 STATEMINT. I Calve/. I 189 ,----- NEWGATE ASTI) LEA DENH4I.I, MARKETB. At per stone, by the Carcass. I, 0. to s. 0. s. d. toe. d. Beef 3 0 4 41 Veal Mutton 2 6 3 6 Pork 3 6 1 0 RUMFOIU) hi 4, d, 4 to d. Hee on * 4 4 4 Ili Mutt 4 e. d. toed. U Veal ... Pork . aAe t l+Tg t4 e r ve o r l y d tr , lrg il la s u . : o tt i ke 4 lies e l e Pee • f. Suckling Calves from Ws. to 395. Supply rather numerous, anti tr; which was in demand, very dull. STRYNING MARKET.—Dee, 4, Beet • ••••.•••• • yrn,r,• 4s. Ott. to 411. 4d. I Veal 0 a a 3111U011 4 ti Pork 41.0 d. to 4s. 4d Siipplygotiii; and trade with goad Beef brisk, with Mutton and Pork dull. The Prices resulting from the Cattle Show, which also took place to-day, were awarded:.--'fo W. Clorrenge, Esq. for the best Sussex Ox, a pi ece of plate, value Ht. ; to Luke Upperton FAN. for the second best, a piece of plate, value Si. ; to the 11ev. W. Wieldwaird for the beat Sus sex Steer, a piece of plate, value N. ; to the Duke of Richmond, for the best Runt, a piece of plate, value pE 4 Tu o r FLAptio4.—On Thurarday morning, died akhis house in Buckingham-street, Fitzroy-square, in the 72d year of his age, John Flaxinan, Esq,, R.A., and professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy. Mr. Vision:in contracted a severe cold by leaving his house on Snnday last ; but was suffi ciently well on Monday to receive a few friends at dinner. Medi cal advice was called in the same evening. Ili* constitution had been weakened by a gradual decline of health, which bad for se veral years excited the apprehension of his professional and per sonal friends, and he was therefore spared the suffering of a severe and procrastinated illness. Mr. flaxinan's reputation was widely spread on the continent ; his designs after the Viad and Odgssey of Homer, iflechyliii: 1 Ifesiod I Dante, and had established for him the andisPuted fame of origingl genius and poetical invention, among the critics and cognoscenti of Italy and Germany, among whom be enjoyed a higher reputation than has been granted to any o ilr f eioli o ug i s i it r ne i iii • f o t i ,i i i i u it i i. i y am m ti e ... n, w l it .i l i i .a t r heex e c ti v i p ia t l ion of perhaps Sir Christopher Wren and Sir Joshua Reynolds. As a sculptor, his works are chiefly of that higher kind, which is nut calculated to confer po polarity. Ife never, we believe, executed busts, except as por tions of wpllidira) monuments, to Cwollilieughe:tolexdfeorn.9:2olllallis fit Win. of his mind particularly indined hint. Westminster Abb ey eon _ tains his Lord 'gar:afield • adopted, in general, the dm , 4ITS; St. - Pripl'S, several otber of his most distinguished works. Mr. Fhanuin l i ved a ver y retired life : he professed himself a associate did not entirely free free from om s‘ A ttl f !iiil e itis i ihi l es : : l :t k e e lii r etoit.oa o ctn f oaeindvi t igo, l i i grwi e teag E tit,art,o s til t ili a siib, h itnys ll ff e toiabi l I;juieeagindite,:eiCtes,:eilyiii:t:lblitayt:ct.ttarl.it:e.,,:le:iat Swedenborg,thriadot nly.tico t t i li w o o u i ll og h ia h n e . d l‘ id ,h n e o n t warmi) gll b e' e nt o l ev7le r n u t iC •e L an P if r l i e g l i i d - Int° • iral'el. li r cwis a man of integrity. In all r . Y matters so severely scrup u l ous aga i ns t his own interest, t tat his profession w ra as nk f . ar l l e i s e s p u r ar l r u i c ed tiv e e ar t l o y hi i i n n tie, and on etc( studies in Italy after .his marriage. Ile s ii ii a r ' a ved in( h .C4 i: ti lad iallri y is se tis ve le' r in a si l ° y Y ea w r g s. The iodine at the Royal Academy nn Thursday night was ampendedin consequence of his dtk•ease. this way, without inquiry, they Would be reduced to the situation of slaves. Sir H. HARDINGE observed, that The ifs of the Member were sure to make:every case extremely harmless. 'After a few words from Mr. HUME, The SPEAKER put the question for the produc tion of " Copies of all Letters between Colonel Arthur and Lord Bathurst, in the years 1819 and 1820, relative to his going on half-pay, his removal to Jamaica, or his continuing in his com mand at Hondurati."—Put and negatived. NEW WRIT. Sir A. GRANT having been elected for two Bo roughs, and having made his Election for Aldborough. (as we understood), a New Writ was ordered for Lostwithiel, the other Borough for which he had been chosen. ARIGNA MINING CONLMITTEE. Mr. R. MARTIN stated, that it was originally hit intention to move for au addition to the Committee appointed to take into consideration the Affairs of the Arigna Mining Com pany ; but be had since understood that his Hon. Friend (Mr. Brogden) was perfectly satisfied to leave the inquiry in the hands of the Gentlemen already nominated, and he s h ould abstain from making any motion on the subject. - Mr. BROGDEN felt quite satisfied that his ease was perfectly safe in the hands of the Gentlemen already ap pointed.—Adjourned. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LLOYD'S.—(This DAY.) DIAL, Dim B.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived the Hymen, from Quebec ; Latonia, Wilson, from London for Demerara ; Milne, Innis, Win. and Henry Partridge, from Jamaica ; Orion, Moore, from Jamaica ; Medina, Porysq, from Bengal ; and Pusey Hall, Head, from London for Jamaica. The outward hound re main. PORTSMOUTH, Dfc. S.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Maria, Wilson, from Yarmouth for Gibraltar. The outward hound re main. FA Dec. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived yesterday the Stanmer packet; Sutton, from Lisbon. GRAVICSEND, Dec. B.—Arrived the Reliance, Markland,, from Calcutta ; Agenoria, Smyth, from St. Petersburgh ; Nelly, Pot tinger, from St. John's ; Mary and Jane, Frederick, from HuU ; and Doncaster, Marshall, from Quebee.—Sailed the Mohawk, Cummings, for Trieste. Livraroot., Dec. '7.—Arrived the Christina, Hogartil, from Demerara ; C. M‘Donaltl, from Richeinteto ; the Cumberland, Garner, from Cape Breton ; Ewen, from Nova Scotia ; Baleua, from St. John's ; Hato, from Boston ; Mayflower, from New foundland; Julia, Reed, and Ann, Forbes, from Riga. BewulLL, Dec. B.—The l'rincess Charlotte, Praley, from London to Jamaica, Which went on shore yesterday, caught fire this morning, and in spite of every exertion, the vessel and cargo are at this moment nearly consumed. THE MARKETS• COVENT-GARDEN M: ARKET.—(Tnis DAY.) lie morning's market, and the rims nearly the same as on this There was a good supply at I trade was a little renovated ; pi day se'nnight. s. d. to L d. Potatoes (per cwt.) 3 0 6 0 Cabbages (12 haads) 0 8 1 6 Ditto Red 0 8 1 fi .. i. dtos. d. Pears (half.slave) 2 6 7 0 Apples, Common Ditto. Cliolce 4 0 '7 0 Q u i nces Oranges (100) Lemons English Walnuts 1 0 2 0 SpanishChesnuts(peck) 3 0 6 0 I rench ditto 2 6 5 0 French Walnuts 2 6 4 0 Spanish Hazlenuts 1. ilberts (121b5.) 7 0 10 0 Grapes '6 0 9 0 Savoys 9 1 6 • „ Horie Radish (bundle) 2 0 4 0 Brocoli 0 ti 1 ti Celery 0 9 1 4 Carrots (12 bunches) Turnips Coleworts or Greens 1 0 2 Leeks Spinage (halt-sieve)," 0 9 1 0 Small Onions 2 0 2 6 t PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTICES OF MOTIONS AND ORDERS OF THE DAY WHICH NOW STAND ON THE ORDER , BOOK FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. Monday, Dec. 11. ORDERS Or THE DAY. 1. Supply—Committee. Y. Ways and Ideans—Cominittoe. 3. St. Domingo Postage Bill—Third reading. NOTICES or ItarioNs. • 1. Mr. Hume—lnceme and Expenditure of the several Colonies. IL Mr. Williams Wynn—To discharge the present Orders for the cowl. deratiou of Election Petitions, and to appoint other days. Tuesday, Dec. It NOTICE OF MOTION. Sir Robert Wilson—Trazisactions in Portugal and the PeDiDUSIS, in P"" ' judice of existing British Treaties. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. I South Sea Stock .......... . ....... Old'Annuitles.. ...................... New Ditto .................. Ex. Bills, ...... 10 /0 pm. Ditto 5OO 2d. ...... 19 01 04 Ditto Small Ditto Commercial .................. Bank for Opening ....... India for Aceount ................ 'Cons. for Account ......... SOO Nl_ PRICES OF STOCKS Till Bank Stock 403 3 per Cent. Red. 93% IN 3 per Cent. Con* - 3 1 4 per Cent. - Ditto Red. fiUli 4 per Cent. New - Ditto, NZ 91ii '8 7 Bank Long Ann. lflyi India Stock ......- Ditto 80nd5.................. 40 42 pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN F Austrian Bonds, 5 per cent — Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds. Chilimeßonds, 6 pet ...ct Colombian Bonds Dab:471824 4O Y4ri Danish, 3 per cent. 61% Greek Bonds .., Dittoz 1846 Guatemala Mexican Bond Do. 1845 t.) NDS AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Neapolitan, 1824 . ................. Peruvian Bonds ................. *— Portuguese Bonds ................ Prussian. 5 par cent . . Ditto, New ........................ Russian, New, sp. c. ...... .. .. 5 Spanish. 1891 .................. 13% 41e 1923. .... French Rentes, Sp. c .... .. . 90 f, I•W. `. -- Exchange..,........, ISt. 500. 3 per cent........ ... ....... W 18% 1 PRICER - QV SICIARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. e. • Paid. re' Sl'al • 57}0 60 Anglo Mexican Mining Cotnpsny .£7:t 313 Bolanos Mining Company 2tls 0 Brazilian MiningTompany lO tiittli Bolivar Mining Company r $ , • : 4tl Columbian Mining Loutpfiny )5 31 X 3 1.3 Potosi La Paz and Peruvian Assoc. United Mexican Milling Company ...... . 27 * ' 5 British Rock and Patent Salt Company.... 6S g £ Van Dieman's Land Agricultural Company 2 !%1 ___.—..... . '• 1J RSV. OF EXCH A Amite', , r ''' C.F. 12 4 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam,.,..., VU. 12 3 Antwerp l2 5 Hamburgh 2% U. 37 4 Altona 2% U. 37 5 Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto 2 U. 95 95 Bordeaux ' 25 85 Berlin — Frankfort on Maine, Ex.M. 153% Petersburgh, rbie 3 Us. 9 0 Vienna, effective II 2 M. 10 16 Trieste do. Madrid 3 ,41 Cadiz Bilboa Barcelona Seville 34 Gibraltar 45 PRICE OF IRISH Bank Stock Gov. Stock, 3% per cant....B7Nyi Ditto, New 87% 4 per Cent 'INS Ciov. Deb. 34:per cent BBi Consols, 3 per cent Bl% Royal Canal Stock - Grand Canal Stock - City Deb. 4 per cent. - Ballast Office Deb. 4 per cent. --- NGE YESTERDAY. • Leghorn ................. ..... 47i4 Genoa ....................... Venice .......... .............. 46 N[alts ................................. -- Naples. .............................. 364 Palermo .................. per os. 115 Lisbon ............................... 42% Opo .............................. 48)6 Rio Janeiro. ...................... Bahia. ............................. 44 Buenos Ayres ... ................ 43 Dublin. 21 days' ......... 1 Cork ................. ............... 1 auttio2, Pia oz. 11 . d• Portugal Gold, in coin... 0 0 6 For e ign Gold, in bArs ..... . 3 17 Ne w Doubloons ............. 3 13 New Dollars ......... •• .. • .... 0 Silver, in bare, itandart t. • STOCKS, NationalPatrioticHibernian Pa tric k Royal C u iSaD Ditto t " :" . ci re : " ......................................................................... itto Provincial Ditto .............. Royal Irish Ming ....... .......... Imperial Mine . ... . ............. Mining Co. of Ireland •........... Commercial Buildings..... : o .'‘ ' I AIL S . I L- 8 0 0 0 6 vN Arrived. Arrived.jGL Li s bo n r a : s a e . . y .. ........... J ... e ...... e. O Anierica • Brazil 0 0 Haraburgh ......... O Buenos Ayres O Donaghadite ......... 0 1 Dublin O Flanders 0 O France 0 Gottenburgh 2 0 %Vitiator,' .......... HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORB°W; Morning 54 minutes after it f Evening it) minutes sits " HAY MARKET, (At per Load c ST. J A S.— ( Tats DAY.) )(3 mita.) MES'S. Lowland Meadow Hay.f3 sto 4 5 Clover Hay ft 10 to 6 6 Upland Ditto Rye-grass Hay ... 4 5 5 5 Wheat Ditto New Meadow Hay 4 0 5 0 Supply rather limited, and trade a little brisk, but no improvement on Thursday's prices. SMITHFIELD. Lowland Meadow Hay.f6 sto 4 5 Clover Hay generally ..{4 10 to 6 0 Upland Ditto Rye-grass Hay New Meadow Hay .. • 4 0 5 0 Wheat Ditto Supply iooil, trade dul , and prices atatlonary CORN-EXCHANGE.—Drc. 8. There urn good supplies of Barley, Beans, and Flour, this week, but of other Grain the quantities are small.. Wheat meets a dull sale at Monday's prices. Barley is L. to Qa. per quarter lower. Beans are dull and rather cheaper. Pease are unaltered. tuts meet a heavy trade at Is. per quarter reduction in value. Flour is unaltered. ARRIVALS. English I Wheat . B a rley . I 41 . a . rley r . i. I q 10. 160 sits q . ri ' . I ~1 41:4 ; ui r e . k s, Irish Foreign --- 450 - 500 3,,554) tin Sinn. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1.816' INVASION OF PORTVO His MAJESTY'S brig L9ra has arriveu the Admiralty, f r om Sir WM. A'ColtT, and rice Admiral Lora nw Asis BEAUCLERt, containing thedespatches f or the Foreign Office and Lisbon, bringing important intelligence of the actual invasion of ' de Portugal by the Royalist forces under the Margins C HAvi6s, who had advanc ed about 20 m il es into the country. The MARQUIS is said to have with bum 3 , 0 00 men—but altogether there are upwards of Portuguese deserters in Sp ain, all of whom Wilt ti°c/' to his standard. A private letter which we have received states that disposition to favour Don D au EL begi ns to exhibit IVI itself even in Lisbon. The Lyra sailed from the rra.g11.97 a t jay - i i g ht, 0 the morning of the 27th ult. F The several Paris Pa---pers ofNVedneadaY, 1 ' 11 ", i t , w 4to u i ß /e m o , : i Tl ß i u u ß r o sd n a , y morning, reached US b 4 lug 1 TI c l a tter c ontains nothing important nor interesiingi l‘toi,..fie.tmhheiittiyhxepilAeeaisclienspg.rtio.a.nstiddoeftcillaetrhareteipoSlnyp, eeotficlaititheofrtehse`id:it"gty proves rh t that othera gizerneeirt French Suites, after a lapse of three years. There is s I " ° ,'" l i ne , . nsjtehoneutirmsnecond opening °I. the g an d candour in his MAJESTY'S AddreSs oll' C ' l full ° tinue to do his utmost to show that he places lily 0 ' luTpittess in the welfare of his subjects.' , , are f u l} the proceedings crf4he Poituguese Refugoil of its news of the preceding day had been receivehl; French and that the .itoya_lists. The same psper adds, that Mr. LAN ti behas deelared, that if the new Constitution of POrlti , 1 threatened _ with danger, a body of English troop,: of Br 8t.:a:na1:1.7:4 Prvnei'lifilli°‘9le'lh°olc{:ll.eitivia)bise:l''':isill'i-lunet-leric:::1:41119‘ .lohueid°etialitir: clinetdye P ositively states tracts only :—. " • . Funds rather rise. We subjoin ti few s'' (From the ENO' of Thursday.) B • UCHARIST, Nov. 14.—Tha Russian courier, from C0011...ii; un°ol:leietwahnoivoe jug,hatudtowleiavien brought letters t I ineo itelit::ottolti;or that a confirmatt c date than those of our ' last. We expect here, from Akernlic„t the T ur ki s h comndro,ionere, Haiti and Ibrahim-91'0A ',',"„ Sequent to the exchange of the ratificatians sod he additiotial tli-, Venting they tat out for Constantinople, reached ' A s sy. 7 .— Gazette of Augsburg. , ,_ „tstcp Letter* from Peteriburgh, of the 4th (16th) Novemuc r i •,- „ that aecounti from Akerrnattn, of the 26th October (Nov. OP. -u t ; nounce, that the Turkish courier, the bearer of the ratificatioto of the Grand Signior, had just arrived, and drat they 0 1 1 ''' exchanged the next day. • qty li 4 General Baron Jwigii, MiPteof-Cienerel of his Afars be ,Emperor, 91 . Allsais, bas arrived at Paris from hi ; prised the Ist of the mouth at Frankfort. (From the Quotitlienne.) ,„ot PARIS, DEC. 6.—We have before us the Madrid a i , .,42„ , !,: a to the OtbS of Nov., and a letter of the smut) datr, 11',..n.a°""""Ti is the news we gave yesterday, All4l Oidi il P(SY C""li.-- 'i'itft they have sire 7 stance that the city pf-14rasansa was, occupied bY di , lI ° Y L..y. who were received by the inbabitauts with transport. of /1 1 .,, The Marquis Ile Chaves, who owns an immense landed poriq